Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)

Departing more and more from his more usual farcical style while retaining many of the elements that have made him the kind of storyteller he is today, Pedro Almodovar ended the year 2000 with a striking, passionate film that unless you... Full review

What a genius Almodovar is! Who else could take such esoteric material and make it not only enjoyable, but relatable. It takes a lot of chutzpah for a male director to swan dive into the gulf of womanhood (I can't believe... Full review

Being a greenhorn to Almodovar's film, All About My Mother is the 1st movie from Almodovar i watched. Overall, All About My Mother is one of the finest film that i've watched, where it is hard for me to find any... Full review

Todo Sobre mi Madre seemly starts off as a portrait of devoted mother Manuela and her ambitious son, Esteban. They have an unusually close relationship and share everything with each other. The happiness abruptly turns into heart-breaking melodrama when Esteban dies... Full review

As this was my first Almodovar movie I didn't quite expect that much,was I ever going to be surprised.Almodovar is widely seen as the greatest Spanish cineast since Luis Bunuel,which I really like,and I must say that I concur with that.The... Full review

Very few directors, since Bunuel, Fassbinder, Lindsay Anderson and Roman Polanski, have been able to translate their own, very private universes, to the screen. That is why, it divides audiences in such a radical way. You love it or you hate... Full review

I've watched this masterpiece by Almodovar four times. Each time I unearth new sequences of pure unadulterated truth, beauty, and genius. It is just a totally compelling and amazingly insightful comedy-tragedy that works on so many levels. Cecilia Roth is an... Full review

This time of the year, when we talk about movies, we have to talk about Oscar. The nominees will be announced this Tuesday, but there are already favorites in some categories. Some people still doubt that "American Beauty" will win as... Full review

Almodovar is masterful: he has created a film that seeps into you and rips apart your insides. Each moment is flawlessly crafted- the cinematography and light are lush, the writing is heart-wrenching. Loaded with irony and paradox, the story deals sensitively... Full review

In a way, Blanche's fatal mistake is also that of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in an organ donor clinic in Madrid. ... Full Review

Instead, All About My Mother is bold and lively filmmaking, which plumbs jewels from cinema's past and builds on them to resonate in new directions. Though All About My Mother , in the course of its story, takes us through familiar conventions like the death of a loved one and the birth of a new baby, it manages to feel new. ... Full Review

One of the film's many pleasures is....The title echoes All About Eve, and All About My Mother embraces some of the plot (turned inside-out) of the great Bette Davis vehicle....Verdict With magnificent performances all around, especially from Roth and the agonisingly beautiful Cruz, this is one you just don't want to end.....all women are great actresses but their skill at emoting in public doesn't mean.... ... Full Review

wresting from it, through brilliant performances and dazzling visuals, pure drama....., the heroin-addicted actress (and Huma's contentious lover), is too dazed to perform.....Evoking the work of Douglas Sirk and Nicholas Ray in its emotional intensity, saturated color and over-the-top plot, All About My Mother pays homage to women and actresses....to donate her husband's organs, finds herself playing the horrific scene for real.....while seeking an autograph from Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), the actress who ... Full Review

With this film, he has offered up a kinder, gentler version of his usual gender-bending and hysterical melodrama..... ... Full Review

Close on the heels of their much acclaimed All About Women , which interestingly due to popular demand was later also made into a Hindi rendition, Akvarious is all set with their latest play All About My Mother . ... Full Article

After a run of world-class films that began 10 years ago with All about My Mother, Pedro Almod?var has slightly taken his foot off the pedal here. ... Full Article

Pen?lope Cruz has said that her long-time collaborator Pedro Almod?var is an inspiration to her. The actress told The Times that she had wanted to work with Almod?var ever since she saw his 1990 movie Tie Me Up, Tie Me... ... Full Article

But this year the pressure is as much on the festival to deliver a dazzling line-up as it is on the film-makers in official selection. ... Full Article

There's some benign name-dropping going on here. I suspect that, had he not recently adapted All About My Mother for the Old Vic , Samuel Adamson wouldn't have seen his one-woman play produced in the commercial West End , albeit... ... Full Article

Kate Pakenham is telling me about the time she had to drag Greg Wise out of bed. "Last year an actor lost his voice overnight. ... Full Article